Thibault is winningest WNBA coach

People can't always guess what summit their paths might lead them to scaling. Suffice it to say that if 20 years ago, you'd told Mike Thibault that he'd become the winningest coach in a pro women's basketball league, he would have given you that bemused Thibault look.

Not contemptuous. Not incredulous. More like, "Hmm, how is that going to happen?"

There was no such league then in the United States. In 1993, Thibault was already a career basketball guy on the pro side, ...